Dark passages
By: producers, Tanya Hart, Valerie Whitmore ; studio crew director, Wally Ashby ; a product of Broadcast Video Productions, Inc. ; Black Entertainment Television
Contributors: Gossett, Louis, 1936-; Avery, Margaret; Blight, David W.; N'Diaye, Joseph; Nyang, Sulayman S. (Sulayman Sheih); Watson, Robert; Moose, George E.; Aboucar; Abdul Kareen, Karema; Diallo, Adama; Berthe, Mamedou; Ka, Mustafa; Huggins, Nathan Irvin, 1927-; Broadcast Video Productions; Black Entertainment Television; PBS Video
Publisher: PBS Video [distributor]
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [S.l.]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Slave trade; Slavery; History; Slaves' writings, American; Islam; African Americans; Genealogy; Blacks; Africans; Foreign countries; Description and travel
Description: Employes a mixture of interviews, slave narratives, and dramatization. Tells the story of the impact of the Atlantic slave trade. Takes the viewer from the House of Slaves on Goree Island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, to the village of Juffere on the Gambia River.
Notes: "In memory of Dr. Nathan Huggins."

Full screen version presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original television exhibition.

Originally produced as a television production, c1990.

Executive producers, Tanya Hart and Valerie Whitmore ; contributing producer, Cheryl Bond-Nelms ; videographer, Larry Frazier ; editors, Tracey Branson, Rolyn Franzen, Tim Kahoe ; production manager, Rick Porterfield ; production coordinator, Judy Barton ; Studio crew: Director, Wally Ashby ; technical directors, Ricardo Johnson, O. Shaw, Jr. ; camera, Cheria D. Brown ... [et al.] ; lighting director, L.L. Haynes ; art director, Scott Perkins ; artist, Jim Veneble ; graphics, Gina Gousse ; Set designer, Rockey Mabrey ; translators/consultants, Sheila Walker, Pamela McLaurin.

Narrator, Tanya Hart ; featured, Louis Gossett, Jr., and Margaret Avery ; interviews with David Blight, Joseph N'Diaye, Sulayman Nyang, Robert Watson, George E. Moose, Aboucar Africa Weaver, Karema Abdul Kareen, Adama Diallo, Mamedou Berthe, Mustafa Ka.

Shot on location in West Africa and in Virginia.

DVD, stereo., NTSC.

Closed-captioned.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Never an easy life; title: The Atlantic slave trade; title: The strong men were taken; title: The middle passage; title: New dimensions of slavery; title: Islam in Africa; title: Remembering the millions lost.